Junior Professorship for Public History

Public History examines how history is negotiated, communicated and appropriated in public, for example in museums and memorials, in movies and podcasts, in monuments and landscapes. It asks who tells history for whom and by what means, how these public forms of history are created and what effects they have. As a field of research and practice, it combines scientific analysis with the question of how historical knowledge can be shared and be effectively used in society.